NYC police pursue video leads in bar beating (AP)

This image provided by the New York Police Department and made from a surveillance camera inside a convenience store near a bar shows a man police believe to be the stranger who followed a woman into a New York City bar restroom after she rejected his advances early Thursday March 11, 2010, savagely beat her in a toilet stall and perhaps tried to sexually assault her, according to police. The attack occurred around 2 a.m. at Social, a three-story bar and lounge on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan where the 29-year-old victim, a nurse, had gone with a friend, authorities said. (AP Photo/NYPD)AP – Security video has attracted some tips, but none so far have led police to the stranger who followed a woman into a bar restroom, savagely beating her and perhaps trying to sexually assault her after she rejected his advances.

9/11 Trials: Can Graham Help Forge a White House Deal? (Time.com)

Time.com – Caught short on civilian trials for terrorism suspects and closing GuantÁnamo, the Obama Administration is negotiating with GOP Senator Lindsey Graham. But it’s not clear he can deliver

Judge to hear plan to pay $657M to WTC responders (AP)

Firemen and rescue personnel work at the site of the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling 657 million dollars for health problems under a settlement reached.(AFP/File/Marcos Townsend)AP – A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge Friday, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair.

Lesbian teen sues to force school to hold prom (AP)

Constance McMillen, an 18-year-old senior at Itawamba County Agricultural High School, is photographed Thursday, March 11, 2010, in Fulton, Miss., a day after the high school announced they wouldn't hold the senior prom April 2. McMillen wanted to bring a same-sex date and wear a tuxedo. (AP Photo/Matthew Sharpe)AP – A lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it canceled.

NY cashier, 91, punched trying to fend off thief (AP)

AP – A 91-year-old New York pharmacy cashier refused medical attention and went back to work after a thief punched her.

Friend: Suspected US al-Qaida member grew radical (AP)

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP – Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago.

Former John Edwards aide returning to NC court (AP)

Andrew Young, former aide to former Senator John Edwards, testifies the existence and location of a disc and missing flash drive during a hearing at the Chatham County Superior Court House in Pittsboro, N.C., Tuesday, March 9, 2010.   John Edwards former mistress, Rielle Hunter, has sued Young for invasion of privacy.   Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones considered twice whether to send Young to jail for contempt over his handling of copies of photographs taken by Rielle Hunter.  (AP Photo/Sara D. Davis)AP – A former aide to John Edwards is returning to court just days after a North Carolina judge nearly sent him to jail over his handling of a videotape purportedly showing the two-time presidential candidate in a sexual encounter.

Fed. appeals court upholds ‘under God’ in pledge (AP)

File - In this June 14, 2004 file photo, Michael Newdow looks down at the fax copy of the Supreme Court's ruling preserving the phrase 'one nation under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance outside his Sacramento, Calif., home. A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ruled that the phrase 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional. In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected arguments by Newdow that the phrase violates the separation between church and state. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,Ffile)AP – An appellate court has upheld references to God on U.S. currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance, rejecting arguments they violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

Autopsy: Animal fatally mauled teacher in Alaska (AP)

In this 2009 photo provided by the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District, Candice Berner, an Alaska special education teacher, holds up crab caught on a school district outing. Autopsy results announced Thursday, March 11, 2010, indicate Berner, 32, died March 8, 2010, in an animal attack outside the village of Chignik Lake, Alaska. Based on wolf tracks and other indications at the scene, Alaska State Troopers say Berner likely was killed by wolves but that the kind of animal cannot be determined without additional testing. (AP Photo/Lake and Peninsula Borugh School District, Alaska) NO SALES.AP – A teacher jogging along a rural Alaskan road was killed in an animal attack and authorities say wolves are the chief suspects.

Utah House GOP leader says he paid off woman (AP)

AP – Utah’s House majority leader said late Thursday he paid a woman $150,000 to keep silent about going nude “hot-tubbing” with her when she was minor a quarter century ago.